So that is more than one doctor from more than one Practice being
asked to sign prescriptions that purport to come from a different and
fake prescriber?
I suppose searching in the Practices' prescribing tables or records,
using the address of the care home would be far too easy.
Incidentally, PCTs and health authorities before them spend a lot of
time talking about "Prescribing data" ans "Prescribing analysis" when
they are doing no such thing. They are doing analysis of dispensing
data, and only of NHS dispensing at that.
Going direct to the data on what we prescribe only omits a few
handwritten and not formally recorded items, and gives a much more
accurate indication of our intentions, rather than someone else's
outcomes.
And it is easier and in real time.
But it would require imagination, and ingenuity, and would give the
air of depending on something that GPs have made and used.
On 07/03/2012, Roger Gardiner <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> what's the reason?
>
> do you have one practice/care home i.e. are they monitoring you rather than
> the care home?
>
> Roger
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoff Schrecker <[log in to unmask]>
> To: GP-UK <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 18:21
> Subject: Proxy PPA codes for care homes.
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> Can I canvass some opinions?
>
> Our PCT has decided that it needs to gather informarion from the PPA
> on care home prescribing, they have therefore created each care home
> as a "prescriber" with a PPA code and are asking us to configure our
> systems to generate prescriptions over these PPA codes for the care
> homes.
>
> It seems to me that this is inappropriate, am I being over senstive
> about data structures?
>
> Cheers Geoff
>
>
>
> --
> Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments unless by prior
> arrangement.
> See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
>
>
>
--
Adrian Midgley http://www.defoam.net/
|